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July 14, 2005

Announcing July's Is My Blog Burning?

On July 31st, I’ll have the honour of hosting the 17th edition of the food blogging phenomenon Is My Blog Burning? Created by the eminent Alberto of Il Forno, IMBB brings together dozens of bloggers from around the world each month to cook dishes with a common theme.

Let me clarify. tasteTea, as in a tasty dish of your choice prepared with tea.

Any dish or drink that’s made with tea qualifies. On the weekend of July 31st, simply post an entry about your tasteTea dish on your blog, and e-mail me a link to it at [email protected]. Beginning August 1st, I’ll profile 10-15 entries each day until we’ve looked at them all. Hopefully this will give each entry a bit more exposure than normal, and will prevent me from going insane if there are many entries.

Everyone, whether you’re a food blogger or not, is welcome and encouraged to participate. If you need a place to post your entry, I’d be glad to host it for you.

For many of us, tea is very much a ritual in our lives. Often it’s not so much about the tea itself, but the events with which we associate tea with. As an optional part of this month’s IMBB, I’d like to invite you to share with us your own tea rituals and experiences. Depending on the number of participants, I’ll either link to your entry as part of the main round-up or do a separate mini tea rituals round-up.

I’m very excited about hosting this month’s IMBB, and I look forward to reading everyone’s entries. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me or leave a comment.

I am really happy about this idea. It is common ground for all of us, yet so personal. I will be on holiday up in Scotland with my American parents and my Scottish mother in law, the potential for tea discourse is immense. Looking forward to seeing what brews.

What a lovely idea! Thank you. I will of course take part and share stories of mailing 10 pound packages of tea around the world and my first ever Burmese tea salad and so on...plus of course, whatever I come up with to make!

oh my goodness, what a great idea! I salivate just thinking about the tea eggs I used to eat. I'll try to come up with something, and maybe I can rope Emily into it. Nice meeting you at her party last time, btw!

Hi clement, im very glad you've invited everyone even the ones that arent food bloggers; im actually trying to build a web site about food, but its much more complicated than i had though. Then im gonna think of some recipes for this "is my blog burning" and ill post them on my usual blog.
Love
Fanny

Do herb teas count, or should entries be restricted to real tea as an ingredient?

(Alas, I'm a barbarian, and don't like the taste of real tea. I've been thinking of using a spiced herbal tea as the base for a sorbet and/or ice cream, though. Or, if I have to use real tea, perhaps I could try tea-smoking some chicken or salmon.)